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Dates for your Diary
September 2011
Tuesday 13thRehersals begin for December concert

December 2011
Saturday 3rdConcert in Parish Church, Buckingham

Julian Mann

Julian Mann - Musical Director

Julian was appointed as the Society’s Musical Director in January 2009.

He was educated at Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon and then attended Trinity College of Music in London, where he studied Organ, Piano and Conducting. He was then awarded a scholarship by the college leading to his admission as a Fellow of the College.

He is currently Assistant Head Teacher at Weston Favell School in Northampton, having previously been Director of Music at Akeley Wood School, Buckingham.

Julian has also been Musical Director of Luton Choral Society and Organist and Choirmaster at All Hallows in Wellingborough, and has wide experience of conducting both sacred and secular music.

 

Craig Greene

Craig Greene - Répétiteur

Craig started music aged 11 and has been successful as pianist, trumpeter and conductor. As a pianist he won scholarships to study at the RAM, RCM, RNCM and the GSMD. He also obtained a place at Christ Church, Oxford where he studied Music and was awarded a 1st Degree in Music in Summer 2010. He has since been awarded an instrumental exhibition and an academic scholarship to the Royal College of Music.

Craig is in regular demand as a concerto soloist having performed a variety of concertos including the Grieg Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto and others including those by Saint-Saens, Mozart, Gershwin and Beethoven. Most notably he was soloist with the Milton Keynes City Orchestra playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor under the baton of the renowned conductor, Sian Edwards, in a concert for the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. This concert was in the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent.

From September 2010 he will study full time with renowned Russian Pianist Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music.

 

 

 

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